Recent research suggests President Joe Biden’s administration may send a record-breaking 2.7 million illegal aliens to the U.S.-Mexico border this year.
About two million border crossers and illegal aliens are expected to be caught in 2021, as predicted by Princeton Policy Advisors’ Steven Kopits.
Similarly, Kopits predicted that over 2.3 million border crossers and illegal aliens would be caught in 2022, bringing the total number of apprehensions to almost 4.2 million since Biden entered office.
Since December 2022 broke a new monthly record for illegal immigration with almost 250,000 apprehensions along the border, Kopits says that the numbers “are unreal,” implying that Biden is on track to create a new illegal immigration record this year.
As Kopits puts it:
Apprehensions in December were more than expected. Therefore we are raising our projection for the fiscal year and calendar year 2023 to 2.7 million, which would set a new record of 400 thousand from the previous record set in 2022. Simply astonishing. The number of people apprehended yearly along the southwest border is close to 1 percent of the U.S. population.
Most notably, roughly 88,000 illegal immigrants were caught crossing the border last month. More than 73,000 illegal immigrants sneaked across the border in November 2022, adding to the 600,000 who avoided capture during the previous fiscal year.
The thousands of illegal border crossers that the Biden administration releases each month into the interior of the United States, plus the unknown number of “got-away” individuals, add up to a significant problem. For example, in 2021, the government unleashed over 150,000 illegal border crossers into American neighborhoods over just a few summer months.
The number of illegal immigrants who are released into the interior of the United States each month has been kept secret by the Department of Homeland Security. However, the Catch and Release network at the border has been dramatically extended under the Biden administration.